Maidanon Langthasa

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[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

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[Trey & Lea's Stronger Marriages @StrongMarriage5]

7 things your spouse should NEVER have to do in your marriage!

1. Compete with your phone for attention
2. Feel like home is heavier than work
3. Beg for intimate time
4. Wonder if they are is desired
5. Feel alone in the marriage
6. Worry about your loyalty
7. Have that still pursues them after marriage

[Yomi Kazeem @TheYomiKazeem]

This stat is making the rounds but missing the obvious, key context:

Wenger was one man down and was forced to play like this.

Arteta CHOSE to play like this with his full team.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea took down a corpse.

Hands still sticky with blood.

Skin already cold.

Touched death. Held it. Wrapped it.

Became ceremonially unclean for Passover.

For a dead man.

Here's what most Christians miss about the burial of Jesus:

Joseph was a wealthy man. A member of the Sanhedrin. A respected Jew.

And Passover was 3 hours away.

The holiest day of the year.

But he climbed Golgotha anyway.

Jewish law was clear:

Touch a dead body = unclean for 7 days.

Can't worship. Can't celebrate. Can't enter the temple.

Joseph knew this.

He'd spent his entire life following these laws.

But Jesus was still hanging on that cross.

Picture it:

The crowds are gone. The soldiers drunk. The women weeping.

Joseph approaches Pilate—the man who just murdered his Lord—and asks permission.

"Can I have the body?"

Pilate grants it.

Now Joseph has to actually DO it.

He walks to Golgotha.

Blood-soaked dirt. The smell of death. Three crosses against the sky.

Jesus in the middle.

Still.

Finally still.

Joseph climbs the ladder.

Grabs the first nail.

Pulls.

Feel the weight of that moment.

God's body in your arms.

The blood isn't dry yet.

It stains his expensive robes.

His hands.

Under his fingernails.

He can taste the iron in the air.

This is what obedience looks like.

Messy. Expensive. Permanent.

Nicodemus shows up.

Another secret disciple. Another Sanhedrin member.

He brings 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.

That's about $150,000 worth of burial spices in today's money.

Two wealthy men. Two cowards until now.

Finally brave when it's already too late.

They work fast.

Sabbath is coming. They have maybe 3 hours.

Wrap the body. Pour the spices. Seal the tomb.

The sun is setting.

Joseph is now officially unclean.

Can't celebrate Passover tomorrow.

Can't enter the temple for a week.

Think about what he just gave up:

His ceremonial purity.

His Passover celebration.

His reputation (everyone saw him bury a "blasphemer").

His position (the Sanhedrin won't forget this).

His safety (Romans might come for disciples next).

All for a dead man.

But here's what most Christians miss:

Joseph didn't do this expecting resurrection.

He did it expecting NOTHING.

Jesus was dead. Gone. Finished.

This wasn't faith in resurrection.

This was love for a corpse.

That's the part that wrecks me.

Joseph touched death—literally—knowing it meant giving up everything.

Not because Jesus promised him anything.

But because Jesus deserved honor even in death.

Modern Christianity wants clean obedience.

Safe obedience.

Obedience that doesn't cost you Passover.

But Joseph shows us something different:

True discipleship gets your hands dirty.

You want to follow Jesus?

Then stop avoiding the messy parts.

Stop waiting for clean opportunities.

Stop demanding that obedience be convenient.

Joseph climbed Golgotha when everyone else went home.

He wrapped a corpse when he could've stayed clean.

He missed the holiest day of his life to honor a dead "criminal."

He risked everything when there was no visible reward.

That's not religion.

That's worship.

The twist?

Three days later, that tomb was empty.

Joseph gave his grave to Jesus.

Jesus left it empty.

Forever.

Joseph thought he was burying God.

He was actually setting the stage for resurrection.

Your messy obedience?

God's using it too.

Even when you can't see it.

So here's the question:

What are you avoiding because it's too messy?

What obedience are you postponing because it's inconvenient?

What grave are you unwilling to give?

Joseph of Arimathea held death in his arms.

Got blood on his hands.

Missed Passover.

Lost his reputation.

And earned his name in all four Gospels.

Religion says "stay clean."

Discipleship says "get dirty."

Joseph chose discipleship.

What are you choosing?

—TBM

[David Jeremiah @davidjeremiah]

The more you pray in all circumstances, the more you align your will with God’s.

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@robinbetor It's been long since I last had that

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@HomemakingLady Me and my family from India

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Challenge accepted.

GENESIS 6:8
But NOAH FOUND FAVOR in the eyes of THE LORD.

GENESIS 17:7
I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT between ME and YOU and YOUR OFFSPRING after you throughout their generations for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, to be GOD TO YOU and TO YOUR OFFSPRING after you.

GENESIS 18:25
Shall not THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO WHAT IS JUST?

GENESIS 25:23
TWO NATIONS ARE IN YOUR WOMB… THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.

EXODUS 12:13
When I see THE BLOOD, I WILL PASS OVER YOU.

EXODUS 33:19
I WILL BE GRACIOUS TO WHOM I WILL BE GRACIOUS, and will SHOW MERCY ON WHOM I WILL SHOW MERCY.

LEVITICUS 16:34
This shall be A STATUTE FOREVER… that ATONEMENT may be made for THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL because of ALL THEIR SINS.

DEUTERONOMY 7:6–7
YOU ARE A PEOPLE HOLY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD. THE LORD HAS CHOSEN YOU to be HIS TREASURED POSSESSION… BECAUSE THE LORD LOVES YOU.

PSALM 33:12
BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD, THE PEOPLE WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN as HIS HERITAGE.

PSALM 65:4
BLESSED IS THE ONE YOU CHOOSE AND BRING NEAR.

PSALM 106:5
That I may look upon the prosperity of YOUR CHOSEN ONES and glory with YOUR INHERITANCE.

ISAIAH 41:8–9
ISRAEL, MY SERVANT, JACOB, WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN… I HAVE CHOSEN YOU AND NOT CAST YOU OFF.

ISAIAH 43:1
FEAR NOT, FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU. I HAVE CALLED YOU BY NAME. YOU ARE MINE.

ISAIAH 53:11–12
THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, MY SERVANT, SHALL MAKE MANY TO BE ACCOUNTED RIGHTEOUS, and HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES… HE BORE THE SIN OF MANY and MAKES INTERCESSION FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS.

JEREMIAH 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb I KNEW YOU. BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I CONSECRATED YOU.

DANIEL 12:10
MANY SHALL PURIFY THEMSELVES… BUT NONE OF THE WICKED SHALL UNDERSTAND.

MALACHI 1:2–3
JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.

MICAH 7:18
WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU, PARDONING INIQUITY AND PASSING OVER TRANSGRESSION for THE REMNANT OF HIS INHERITANCE?

MATTHEW 1:21
You shall call HIS NAME JESUS, for HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.

MATTHEW 7:14
THE GATE IS NARROW and THE WAY IS HARD that leads to life, and THOSE WHO FIND IT ARE FEW.

MATTHEW 11:25–27
YOU HAVE HIDDEN THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND UNDERSTANDING and REVEALED THEM TO LITTLE CHILDREN… NO ONE KNOWS THE FATHER EXCEPT THE SON AND ANYONE TO WHOM THE SON CHOOSES TO REVEAL HIM.

MATTHEW 13:11
TO YOU IT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO KNOW THE SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT TO THEM IT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN.

MATTHEW 20:28
THE SON OF MAN CAME… TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.

MATTHEW 22:14
MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.

MATTHEW 24:22
FOR THE SAKE OF THE ELECT, THOSE DAYS WILL BE CUT SHORT.

LUKE 1:68–69
THE LORD HAS VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE.

LUKE 4:25–27
THERE WERE MANY… BUT TO NONE WAS THE PROPHET SENT EXCEPT ONE.

LUKE 10:20
REJOICE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.

LUKE 22:20
THIS CUP IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD.

JOHN 3:27
A MAN CANNOT RECEIVE EVEN ONE THING UNLESS IT IS GIVEN HIM FROM HEAVEN.

JOHN 5:21
THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE WILL.

JOHN 6:37–39
ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVES ME WILL COME TO ME… THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME, THAT I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING OF ALL THAT HE HAS GIVEN ME.

JOHN 6:44
NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS THE FATHER WHO SENT ME DRAWS HIM.

JOHN 8:47
WHOEVER IS OF GOD HEARS THE WORDS OF GOD. THE REASON YOU DO NOT HEAR THEM IS THAT YOU ARE NOT OF GOD.

JOHN 10:11, 14–15, 26
THE GOOD SHEPHERD LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP… I KNOW MY OWN… YOU DO NOT BELIEVE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT AMONG MY SHEEP.

JOHN 13:18
I AM NOT SPEAKING OF ALL OF YOU. I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN.

JOHN 15:16
YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU.

JOHN 17:2, 9
YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY… TO GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO ALL WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM… I AM NOT PRAYING FOR THE WORLD BUT FOR THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME.

ACTS 2:39
THE PROMISE IS FOR ALL WHOM THE LORD OUR GOD CALLS TO HIMSELF.

ACTS 13:48
AS MANY AS WERE APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.

ROMANS 8:29–30, 33
THOSE WHOM HE FOREKNEW HE ALSO PREDESTINED… CALLED… JUSTIFIED… GLORIFIED… WHO SHALL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD’S ELECT? IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES.

ROMANS 9:15–16
I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY… IT DEPENDS NOT ON HUMAN WILL OR EFFORT BUT ON GOD WHO HAS MERCY.

ROMANS 11:2–7
GOD HAS NOT REJECTED HIS PEOPLE WHOM HE FOREKNEW… I HAVE KEPT FOR MYSELF SEVEN THOUSAND… THERE IS A REMNANT CHOSEN BY GRACE.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:26–29
GOD CHOSE WHAT IS FOOLISH… WEAK… LOW… SO THAT NO HUMAN BEING MIGHT BOAST IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

EPHESIANS 1:4–5
HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD… IN LOVE HE PREDESTINED US FOR ADOPTION.

EPHESIANS 5:25
CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR HER.

PHILIPPIANS 1:29
IT HAS BEEN GRANTED TO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN HIM.

1 THESSALONIANS 1:4–5
WE KNOW, BROTHERS LOVED BY GOD, THAT HE HAS CHOSEN YOU.

2 THESSALONIANS 1:10
HE WILL BE MARVELED AT AMONG ALL WHO HAVE BELIEVED.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:13
GOD CHOSE YOU TO BE SAVED THROUGH SANCTIFICATION BY THE SPIRIT.

2 TIMOTHY 1:9
HE SAVED US… NOT BECAUSE OF OUR WORKS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE.

TITUS 2:14
HE GAVE HIMSELF FOR US TO REDEEM US… TO PURIFY FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN POSSESSION.

TITUS 3:5
HE SAVED US, NOT BECAUSE OF WORKS… BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN MERCY.

1 PETER 1:1–2
TO THE ELECT… ACCORDING TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER.

1 PETER 2:9
YOU ARE A CHOSEN RACE… A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN POSSESSION.

1 JOHN 2:19
THEY WENT OUT FROM US, BUT THEY WERE NOT OF US.

1 JOHN 4:10
HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS.

HEBREWS 9:28
CHRIST WAS OFFERED TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY… TO SAVE THOSE WHO ARE EAGERLY WAITING FOR HIM.

HEBREWS 10:14
BY A SINGLE OFFERING HE HAS PERFECTED FOREVER THOSE WHO ARE BEING SANCTIFIED.

REVELATION 5:9
BY YOUR BLOOD YOU RANSOMED PEOPLE FOR GOD FROM EVERY TRIBE AND LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE AND NATION.

REVELATION 13:8
ALL WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN.

REVELATION 17:14
THOSE WITH HIM ARE CALLED AND CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL.

REVELATION 20:15
IF ANYONE’S NAME WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, HE WAS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

This👆is the unbroken voice of GOD ALMIGHTY. From the covenant with Abraham to the saints gathered before the Lamb, there has ALWAYS been A CHOSEN PEOPLE.

This is not emotional theology.

This is the testimony of SCRIPTURE.

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@90sfootball David Villa

[Inferam @InferamAI]

Most married men can relate to this. 😅

[autocorrect2.0 @autocorrect2_0]

William Tyndale, the man who translated the Bible into English and was burnt alive at the ridiculous young age of 42 years old, for his efforts. (Google Foxe's book of Martyrs.)

Nearly 500 years ago, this week, William Tyndale, fondly called 'Father of the English Bible' was strangled and burned at the stake after being tried and convicted of heresy and reason for translating the Bible into English.

HIS OFFENSE!
He translated the Greek Bible into English.

That you have a Bible in a language you can read is largely due to his labours, and many of the very phrases you read in it retain the flavour of his understanding of the Greek and Hebrew.

A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, Tyndale had a powerful desire to make the Bible available even to the common people in England, in order to correct the 'Biblical ignorance of the priests.' At one point Tyndale told a priest, "If God spares my life, are many years pass, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost."

Today, 90% of the King James Version of the Holy Bible and 75% of the Revised Standard Version are from the translation made by Tyndale, a man to whom you owe more than you'll ever know.

A nice dream, but how was Tyndale to accomplish his task, when translating the Bible into English was ILLEGAL at the time?'

He went to London to ask Bishop Tunstall if he could be authorised to make an English translation of the Bible, but the Bishop would not grant his approval.

However, Tyndale would not let the disapproval of men stop him from carrying out what seemed so obviously God's will. With encouragement and support of some British merchants, he decided to go to Europe to complete his translation, then have it printed and smuggled back into England.

In 1524 Tyndale sailed for Germany. In Hamburg, he worked on the New Testament, and in Cologne, he found a printer who would print the work. However, news of Tyndale's activity came to an opponent of the Reformation who had the press raided.

Tyndale himself managed to escape with the pages already printed and made his way to the German city Worms where the New Testament was soon published.

Six thousand copies were printed and smuggled into England.

The Bishops did everything they could to eradicate the Bibles. Bishop Tunstall had copies ceremoniously burned at St. Paul's; the Archbishop of Canterbury bought up copies to destroy them. Tyndale used the money to print improved editions!

Tyndale continued hiding among the merchants in Antwerp and began translating the Old Testament while the King's agents searched all over England and Europe for him.

A copy of Tyndale's "The Obedience of a Christian Man" fell into the hands of Henry VIII, providing the king with the rationale to break the Church in England from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
In 1535, Tyndale was arrested and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde (Filford) outside Brussels for over a year.

Tyndale’s work was denounced by authorities of the Roman Catholic Church and Tyndale himself was accused of heresy.

Tyndale, 42 was finally found by an Englishman who pretended to be his friend but then turned him over to the authorities. After a year and a half in prison, he was brought to trial for heresy -- FOR BELIEVING, among other things, IN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS and that THE MERCY OFFERED IN THE GOSPEL WAS ENOUGH FOR SALVATION. In August 1536, he was condemned and was executed [burned alive at the stake] publicly on October 6, 1536, in a small town in Belgium.

As he burnt to death, Tyndale reportedly said "Lord, open the king of England's eyes."

WAS HIS PRAYER ANSWERED?

YES! The prayer was answered first in part when three years later, in 1539, Henry VIII required every parish church in England to make a copy of the English Bible available to its parishioners. Today, Tyndale's prayer is fully answered, not only are the King's eyes opened, but the Bible a universal instrument.

[Creeds & Confessions @CreedConfession]

God is Sovereign

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@robinbetor The creators want to go bankrupt..😀

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@AVFCTheReligion Man City has no fans

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Why should we read the Bible?

1. Know God's will (Ps 119:105)
2. Grow in faith (Rom 10:17)
3. Receive instruction (2 Tim 3:16)
4. Receive correction (2 Tim 3:16)
5. Find comfort (Rom 15:4)
6. Find encouragement (Rom 15:4)
7. Share it with others (1 Pet 3:15)
8. Equip ourselves (2 Tim 3:16–17)
9. Overcome temptation (Ps. 119:11)

[Maidanon Langthasa @Maidanon]

@robinbetor Wow

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

The world tolerates Christianity as long as it stays tame. A private faith, a quiet gospel, a kneeling church. But speak with authority, stand with conviction, and they will come with torches.